About Me 01 // Overview
Hello! I am a Doctoral Researcher in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Kharagpur, working with Prof. Animesh Mukherjee. I am also a member of the Complex Networks Research Group (CNeRG).
I completed my Bachelor's degree from Government College of Engineering, Keonjhar. My research focuses on multimodal harmful content detection, with interests in Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision, and trustworthy AI.
News 02 // Timeline
- Jul 2026 Our new dataset "PluraMath" is now live on Hugging Face! [Hugging Face]
- Jul 2026 Our new dataset "ToxicTags" is now live on Hugging Face! [Hugging Face]
- Jul 2026 Our new pre-print paper "PluraMath: Extending Mathematical Reasoning Evaluation Beyond High-Resource Languages" is now live on arXiv! [ArXiv]
- Jul 2026 Our paper "StemTox: From Social Tags to Fine-Grained Toxic Meme Detection via Entropy-Guided Multi-Task Learning" has been accepted to TACL, a premier ACL-sponsored NLP journal (2025 Impact Factor: 11.7). [ArXiv]
- May 2026 Traveling to Hamburg, Germany for collaborative research exploration. [Link]
- April 2026 Successfully qualified the Ph.D. Comprehensive Viva examination at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur.
- Jan 2026 The latest version of our pre-print paper"StemTox: From Social Tags to Fine-Grained Toxic Meme Detection via Entropy-Guided Multi-Task Learning" is now live on arXiv! [ArXiv]
- Jan 2026 Our new pre-print paper "See, Explain, and Intervene" is now live on arXiv! [ArXiv]
- Dec 2025 Received the IndoML 2026 Travel Grant to attend IndoML 2026 at BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus, where I presented my research posters.
Academic Background 03 // Matrix
2026 — Present
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) — Computer Science & Engineering
Core Focus Areas: Multimodal Harmful Content Detection.
2020 — 2024
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) — Computer Science & Engineering
Qualified GATE 2023 in Computer Science and Engineering during my third year of
undergraduate studies, becoming the only student in my batch to achieve this
distinction. Also qualified GATE 2024 in both Computer Science and Engineering (CS) and
Data Science & Artificial Intelligence (DA), the latter being a newly introduced paper.
2018 — 2020
Higher Secondary (PCM-Science)
Recipient of a laptop under the Odisha Government's Biju Yuva Sashaktikaran
Yojana (BYSY), an initiative aimed at empowering meritorious students
through access to digital learning resources and technology.
Peer-Reviewed Publications
2026
PluraMath: Extending Mathematical Reasoning Evaluation Beyond High-Resource Languages
arXiv Preprints repository (cs.CL).
2026
StemTox: From Social Tags to Fine-Grained Toxic Meme Detection via Entropy-Guided Multi-Task Learning
Accepted at Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL
2026)
ACL-sponsored premier NLP journal (2025 Journal Impact Factor: 11.7)
ACL-sponsored premier NLP journal (2025 Journal Impact Factor: 11.7)
2026
See, Explain, and Intervene: A Few-Shot Multimodal Agent Framework for Hateful Meme Moderation
arXiv Preprints repository (cs.CL).
Teaching Experience 04 // Instruction
Graduate Teaching Assistant [CSE, IIT Kharagpur]
- CS21201 — Discrete Structures [Autumn 2026]
- CS60016 — AI and Ethics [Spring 2026]
Professional Experience 05 // Engagements
July 2024 — Present
Junior Research Fellow
Complex Networks Research Group (CNeRG), Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India
May 2026 — July 2026
Guest Researcher
Hub of Computing and Data Science (HCDS), University of Hamburg, Germany
Sep 2025 — Nov 2025
AI Software Engineer
Abhinaya Limited, United Kingdom
May 2024-Mar 2025
Machine Learning Intern
Nirog Scan by Y3X, India